Friday, April 3, 2009

Pornography

Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.

Is the dictionary’s definition, while its secondary usage has a pretty interesting social role of teasing others. For some reason all females are convinced that 90% of guys watch pornography, and the other 10% is gay. The actual facts for the United States indicate that there are approximately 50 million people out of 300 million who watch pornography, regularly. And that only counts in consumers of magazines like Playboy and etc, because it is nigh impossible to monitor web usage.

The main argument against pornography is that it degrades the overall perception of females in general. I do believe that it is true to a large extent seeing that if the only purpose of pornography is to satisfy a sexual need, and it objectifies females into performing such acts. However if we’re speaking about this sexually, it is the social norm for males to be the more domineering one, and it has always been so before pornography even came into existence in the first place. Outside sex, in areas like the political workplace, we have women, like a certain what’s-her-name who recently broke the hypothetical “glass ceiling” to become the first woman minister.

Simply put, if Barrack Obama can be the President of the United States, anything can happen.
Of course, implementation of any policies to stop pornography can screw itself over because the regular 50 million people of USA aren’t likely to not source for a black market to suit their needs. Regardless of what the government tries, due to either the internet or loopholes in the law, pornography, a huge industry as it is, will not stop.
A world free of pornography would be a nice one, but sadly that’s like saying one wants a world with no famine, nuclear weapons, etc.. Living alongside this vice in society is the only way we can deal with it.